DIMAPUR, SEPTEMBER 7 (MExN): The NSCN (K) today claimed that the recent declaration of non cooperation by the public of Aghunato to the former was the result of certain sections who have “manipulated the emotional situation and architectured the non cooperation declaration.”
A press note from the MIP of the NSCN (K) alleged: “It must be recalled that the Indian Security Forces in an unprovoked attack gunned down one innocent civilian and injured another civilian at Aghunato area last year in November 2 in which two NSCN workers were also killed. The offensive combing operations have been continuing in the area since then, yet the architectures of today’s non-cooperation seem to have ignored the actual sustained provocative actions of Indian Security Forces responsible for NSCN’s retaliation.”
It claimed that “more than dozen NSCN workers have been arrested, tortured, imprisoned and killed under Zunheboto district by Security Forces during the last 18 months but the NSCN have been maintaining maximum restraint and avoiding confrontation in the district solely to ensure public safety.”
It further said that the “peaceful manoeuvres of NSCN on the contrary has emboldened the occupational forces to adopt more aggressive posture in the area for which a lesson was taught.”
Terming the Aghunato area as having has been “the bastion of Naga struggle and the first Naga’s war of independence, the 1955 Indo-Naga battle was fought at Hoshepu, Aghunato,” the NSCN (K) stated that “the people of Aghunato had through thick and thin always stood besides NSCN and the same camaraderie shall continue even in the days to come.”
It further cautioned that “anti-national elements involved in the declaration shall be exposed and defeated.” The NSCN (K) declared that “the Naga Army shall resist and encounter the occupational Indian forces anywhere, anytime throughout Naga inhabited territories as long as the Government of India uses her Armed Forces to suppress the Naga’s struggle for sovereign Independence.”
It asked “Naga countrymen” to “uphold NSCN’s legitimate fight for the honour, identity and freedom of our people that has been nurtured by the blood of our fathers for the last seventy years.”
The NSCN (K) stated that the “atrocities being committed on the innocent Naga civilians under the garb of AFSPA by Indian Armed Forces in itself demonstrates that Nagas are not Indians and every Naga both armed nationalists and civil organisations alike including Aghunato Public must unite to fight tooth and nail against the continuing inhuman aggression of India rather than choosing to condemn own Naga patriots.”
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